The Killers, Sam's Town Reviews

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Good Points: Excellent music!

Bad Points: To different to their first album.

General comments: Sams Town is an excellent follow up to Hot Fuss, while having a largely different style I think this is great and a breath of fresh air. At first I was not sure about it however, after a few times listening to it I loved it! Best album of 2006 without a doubt.

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The Killers are a very strange band, for me, in that they're the only group in their genre that I can happily get on with.

After listening to a friend's copy of Hot Fuss, I felt the need to buy Sam's Town, maybe out of curiosity, but mostly because I loved Hot Fuss and needed more of The Killers.

There is only one problem with Sam's Town, and I mean with The Killers in general - and this is the use of the word "heart" which is said in almost every song (this isn't a bad thing, I just thou ...

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I do love the Killers as I know what they're capable of, however this album has in my opinion NO connection with their previous Hot Fuss. Where I found Hot Fuss a clever, soulful indie album I find Sam's Town to be a muddled cacophony where each member sounds like they're pulling in a different direction. It may have been The Killers' intention to stretch their sound, but it ended up reminiscent of them running out of time and the record company demanding a premature release date. Brandon Flower ...

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I think the sound of this album is quite different from hot fuss. I think it is better as well. In my opinion this is the best album of the year(2006). There are loads of good songs on this album i.e.'and he doesn't look a thing like jesus but' (I can't remember the name of that song) and bones as well.

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I think that Sam's Town is a successful follow-up to Hot Fuss. The music is similar but fresh and has a distinctively new sound. Songs such as 'Sam's Town', 'For Reasons Uunknown', 'Read My Mind', 'Hey Johnny', and 'Bones' are great songs and provide great listening and satisfaction. The song 'When You Were Young' is obviously the spearhead song but does have the backing from the songs mentioned to give this album an overall worthiness. In my opinion, Sam's Town is a great album and is a valued ...

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"Sam's Town" is worthy in its own right, but not as a mate to "Hot Fuss." It comes off as sloppier and more self-indulgent than its predecessor; there is no whimsy or music for the sake of music.

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The Killers' follow up to Hot Fuss isn't what many expected and so I think they will lose some of those fans who want more of that heated, fast pop and fresh sound that the Killers completely embraced on the first record. However, Sam's Town is a solid record. It flows when played in its entirety and has songs that can stand on their own, "Read My Mind", "Bones", and the title track "Sam's Town" are perfect examples of such. Much has been made about this record not being as good as the first or ...

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It's a good album, and their performance on SNL absolutely blew away most bands that I've seen on the show in the past couple of years. Flowers is a unique and charismatic front man - he's just weird enough to make me interested. The Killers Sam's Town album is a good representation of a band growing into themselves. An improvement on Hot Fuss, in my opinion.

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There's no wonder why the radio stations have been completely unenthusiastic about the album since its release. It's not very good. I've read people saying "they couldn't just bring out another album like Hot Fuss, and they had to move forward". Why? Hot Fuss was a masterpiece of writing and production. There was energy and a roughness that made you excited to hear it. All but two of the songs on that album were Killer, and those 2 were hardly filler. What's wrong with that formula? I had high h ...

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The long awaited Killers follow up Sam's Town finally arrived and what a return for the Las Vegas indie boys. This album screams from the first listen of big show tunes as Brandon Flowers belts out each number with his usually deepness in voice backed with over the top instrumental backing. Although this is a stronger effort lyrically from that of Hot Fuss the songs are not to different in style and poise making this a must have in any collection. There is however a sense of back to the roots w ...